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roland
Dear friends,
I recently built up a PC using a new X79 dual cpu mainboard with 2 Intel Xeon LGA/2011 cpus running at about 2400 khz..
I installed antiX 19.2 x64 without problems from a recent Sourceforge download..
I cannot run anything serious as the whole screen freezes whenever the mouse cursor crosses the boundary of a window, so running a terminal is not possible, although I can select Htop from the menu and see what’s going on although cannot manipulate anything..
I understand that freezing with this release in not unheard of and that alternative kernels are suggested, which I cannot easily install without a terminal session.
I seem to be faced with installing release 17.4 which has not had these problems reported to my knowledge.Any suggestions before I try 17.4 will be gratefully received.
ModdIt
Looks like you mean terminal is also affected
Maybe do an update, then kernel update or change on your vers 19 live Stick, remaster then try again.#Anonymous
alternative kernels are suggested, which I cannot easily install without a terminal session.
By adding a bootline parameter, you can instruct the system to boot to a different runlevel ~~ avoiding autostart of the Xserver. If your normal booline looks like this
quiet splasht disable=lx
just append to the line, adding (a space and) number of the desired runlevel
quiet splasht disable=lx 3
then you can perform kernel upgrade via “terminal” without the interference of Xwindows
caprea
You can also download a version of antiX19, which already is build with the newer 4.19 -kernel.
It’s on the top in the 4.19_kernel/ -folder
http://glua.ua.pt/pub/mx-isos/ANTIX/Final/antiX-19/
sybok
Hi,
you can switch to virtual terminal, e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F3, console mode only which should circumvent the mouse issues.
Login, do the update/re-install or whatever, logout and get back to “standard X11” via Ctrl+Alt+F7.Did not test if these extra console( mode)s can already be accessed at login screen.
BTW: It is advisable to check integrity of downloaded ISO via verifying the check-sums.
Did not test if these extra console( mode)s can already be accessed at login screen.
Yes, can do.
If you logout from desktop session, on the SLiM login screen you can type “console” (noquotes) as the username. When you press enter, an xterm window is displayed and you can login to a console.Within /etc/inittab we can see that 6 ttys are automatically started when entering runlevels 2,3,4, and 5.
(The system boots to runlevel 5 by default. During each boot, we can request otherwise by appending a numeral to the boot line.)From within a desktop session, the keybinds Ctrl+Alt along with 1-6 enable on-the-fly switching between them (and Ctrl+Alt+7 switches back to viewing the graphical session). To switch to a different virtual terminal without using keybinds, we can use the command “chvt” (or “sudo chvt”). The command “chvt 7” will switch back to displaying the ongoing graphical desktop session.
sybok
@skidoo: Oh, did not know the details behind these consoles. Thank you!
roland
I downloaded an iso labelled antiX-19.2.4.19_kernel-runit_x64-full.iso and did a clean install, the freeze problem seems to have been resolved,although after a left mouse button press on almost any function there seems to be a very short delay before it responds, maybe just my imagination.
Why are there so many kernel options? Linux is already now much diverged, as indeed Unix has been for many years (Unix, Aix, Drs/nx, and upwards of a dozen others). If new code is needed to resolve a problem should it not be part of the ‘master’ kernel and not placed in some ‘one-off’ kernel?
Thanks for all responses, it’s a great help if only to be pointed where to look.
SOLVED thanks.
These 2 questions are “diametrically opposed”
or they describe “mutually-exclusive” scenarios, yes?“so many options” is the result of jampackstuffing things into relatively FEW kernels, thereby precluding creation of further myriad ‘one-off’ kernels.
Why are there so many kernel options?
If new code is needed to resolve a problem should it not be part of the ‘master’ kernel and not placed in some ‘one-off’ kernel?
to be pointed where to look
websearch:
icewm mouse click delayno results seemed immediately useful (IOW, doesn’t seem to be icewm-specific), so
websearch:
linux mouse click delayWhy are there so many kernel options?. Sometimes not enough, Arch and Gentoo definitely have a niche.
A custom kernel with only what support is needed for specific hardware is most efficient.In a little group of slightly more than 40 families we have TWO machines with same hardware,
the rest go from EEPC to an I7 gaming and video monster. My Pentium dual core runs on old kernel ok.
Other with quad core 2500 Mhz. I5 freezes and is slower than the old box. Jamming all the support
needed for hardware spanning, in our case 18 years or so in to one kernel would make it gigantic,
slow and probably impossible to debug enough for daily usage.Same hardware = Motherboard, processor, memory both 2GB. Graphics onboard.
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